Reseña

The Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (UPB), through its School of Architecture and Design, with the collaboration of the Colombian Node of the Learning Network on Sustainability (LeNS), joined forces to address the
relevance of incorporating sustainability more in the training of new architects and designers. Theydid it in this book to contribute to improving our society according to SDG4 and its target 4.7. Throughout the book, various approaches to understanding and proposing solutions to sustainability challenges are interwoven. You will find a framework to understand the need for a new culture of design and sustainability in chapter 1, which will be articulated with technical and social approaches in the learning processes in architecture and design. For example, technically speaking, you will see academic exercises for developing new and more sustainable materials in chapters 2 and 6. From the social side, you will find an analysis of wearables from the perspective of lifestyles in chapter
7 and the study of the value of traditional and ancestral knowledge in chapter 8. You will also find studies about different educational strategies, such as the development of a new educational tool in chapter 3, case studies about how UPB embeds sustainability in their pedagogical
strategy in chapters 4 and 5 and the presentation of an educational experience in the framework of the new virtual pedagogical dynamics in chapter 9.